The Devils

Synopsis

In the mid-1870s, landowner Varvara Stavrogina and Professor Stepan Verkhovensky are the center of society. Stavrogina's son Nikolai and Verkhovensky's son Pyotr are staying in Geneva. There, Nikolai becomes engaged to the lovely Lisa Tushina. However, he is already to be married to another.

Cast

Maria Wimmer

Generalin Warwara Petrowna Stawrogina

Christoph Bantzer

Nicolai W. Stawrogin

Hannes Messemer

Professor Stepan Trofimowitsch Werchowenskij

Volker Lechtenbrink

Pjotr Stepanowitsch Werchowenskij

Anita Lochner

Lisaweta Nikolajewna Tuschina

Klaus Schwarzkopf

Anton Lawrentjewitsch Grigoreff

Lutz Mackensy

Mawrikij N. Drosdow

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Willi Kowalj

Alexej Nilitsch Kirillow

Michael Hanemann

Iwan P. Schatow

Crew

Art

• Gerd Staub Production Design

Camera

• Frank A. Banuscher Director of Photography
• Peter Levermann Second Assistant Camera
• Rainer Stuhlmacher First Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

• Sigrid Narsarski Costume Design
• Gertraude Abasovicz Makeup Artist
• Fred Heilmann Makeup Artist
• Astrid Richter Makeup Artist

Directing

• Eva Ebner Assistant Director

Editing

• Irene Brunhöfer Editor

Production

• Eberhard Scharfenberg Producer
• Arno Hildebrandt Production Manager
• Gerald Goetze Assistant Production Manager

Sound

• Norbert Kinski Sound

Writing

• Fyodor Dostoevsky Novel
• Claus Peter Witt Adaptation
• Leopold Ahlsen Adaptation

Seasons & episodes